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Switzerland (Neuchâtel) : public and bank holidays, closure of banks, stock exchanges, school vacations
Switzerland (Neuchâtel) : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months
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European Truck Ban: 22:00 to 05:00 week nights, 00:00 to 24:00 on Sundays, public holidays & vacations departures/returns
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| Date | Name | Kind | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday april 15, 2024 | Spring holiday (end) | School holidays |  |
| Tuesday april 23, 2024 | Tour de Romanche | Sports events | |
| Wednesday may 1, 2024 | Labor Day/May Day | Secular holiday | |
| Wednesday may 8, 2024 | Ascension holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Thursday may 9, 2024 | Ascension | Catholic or protestant | |
| Monday may 13, 2024 | Ascension holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Friday may 17, 2024 | Pentecost holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Sunday may 19, 2024 | Pentecost | Catholic or protestant | |
| Tuesday may 21, 2024 | Pentecost holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Thursday may 30, 2024 | Corpus Cristi | Catholic | |
| Friday july 5, 2024 | Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF) | Events, celebrations... | |
| Friday july 5, 2024 | Summer holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Thursday august 1, 2024 | Confederation Day | National Day | |
| Monday august 19, 2024 | Summer holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Thursday september 12, 2024 | Fête des Fontaines de Môtiers | Events, celebrations... | |
| Monday september 16, 2024 | Federal Fasting Monday | Secular holiday | |
| Friday october 4, 2024 | Fall holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Monday october 21, 2024 | Fall holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Spring holiday (end)
-Monday april 15, 2024
School holidays :
Tour de Romanche
-Tuesday april 23, 2024
Sports events : Https://www.tourderomandie.ch/
Cycling race -- lasts 5 days in the Vaud, Fribourg and Neuchatel cantons 2024 edition confirmed
Cycling race -- lasts 5 days in the Vaud, Fribourg and Neuchatel cantons 2024 edition confirmed
Labor Day/May Day
-Wednesday may 1, 2024
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Ascension holiday (beginning)
-Wednesday may 8, 2024
School holidays :
Ascension
-Thursday may 9, 2024
Catholic or protestant : Forty days after Easter, always on a Thursday. After his resurrection, Jesus appeared before his disciples and gathered them to tell them to baptize and spread the good word. He then ascended to heaven on a cloud.
Ascension holiday (end)
-Monday may 13, 2024
School holidays :
Pentecost holiday (beginning)
-Friday may 17, 2024
School holidays :
Pentecost
-Sunday may 19, 2024
Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
Pentecost holiday (end)
-Tuesday may 21, 2024
School holidays :
Corpus Cristi
-Thursday may 30, 2024
Catholic : Commemorates the Last supper. Pope Urban IV ordered the observance of such a feast in 1264, and in the following century it became universal in the Western Church.
For six hundred years that feast was observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, but in 1970 the new Roman Missal, while retaining that day for some countries, provided that in others the feast be observed on the Sunday after Trinity.
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF)
-Friday july 5, 2024
Culture : Https://nifff.ch/ lasts 5 days 2024 edition confirmed
Summer holiday (beginning)
-Friday july 5, 2024
School holidays :
Confederation Day
-Thursday august 1, 2024
Secular holiday : Instaured at the end of the XIX century. The date refers to an agreement made at the beginning of August 1291 between Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden. Traditional observance includes bonfires on the the mountains and celebrations in the communities, occasions for patriotic speeches. Modern observance, fostered by the Tourist offices, include fireworks.
Summer holiday (end)
-Monday august 19, 2024
School holidays :
Fête des Fontaines de Môtiers
-Thursday september 12, 2024
Culture :
Federal Fasting Monday
-Monday september 16, 2024
Secular holiday : A religious holiday with a ecumenical background instaured in the 19th century.
Fall holiday (beginning)
-Friday october 4, 2024
School holidays :
Fall holiday (end)
-Monday october 21, 2024
School holidays :
